Catching up with The Simpsons
It’s been a while, so let’s check up on the crazy, crazy world of the Simpsons. For those desperate for news and short on time, it appears that:
- Attorneys for the prosecution and the defence are to meet with the judge to decide on prelim hearing
- Among the sports memorabilia with which the defendants left with, there was the hat (?!) of one of the collectors, Bruce Fromong (probs not the hat in the pic, wouldn’t be that sensible really)
- “Tucking into a meal, receiving a lap dance or watching his children play sports,” are not the only things the Juice has been up to…
So lawyers involved in the trial have been discussing the possibility of a grand jury hearing to “expedite the indictment process and avoid the media,” as AP tells us. You know, this is a good idea. How many televised, high-profile trials does one need in one’s life (if your name’s Phil Spector, possibly “more than one” is the magic number). The report goes on to say:
According to a Las Vegas police report, Thomas Riccio arranged a meeting between two collectors, Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, and a client to sell Simpson’s mementoes and other athletic memorabilia.
Riccio’s client turned out to be Simpson, who entered a Palace Station hotel room with five other men, two of whom were armed. They left with the memorabilia and Fromong’s hat and cell phone, the report stated.
What’s with the hat?! That’s the kind of delicious detail we’ll all be missing out on should the grand jury thing come to pass. Clearly an important piece of memorabilia – maybe it was a Naked Gun hat? What was that? A sports career? I’m sorry, I wasn’t born then.
The real question is, though, what’s the market really like for this stuff? A New York lady by the name of Kathleen McCarthy has done the investigating for us: “I figured there must be a market for his stuff if they say he’s stealing it,” McCarthy said. “But maybe not.” Surprising, as we all thought that’s how market forces worked. Anyway, she tried to sell an autographed book about the football Hall of Famer, that had belonged to her father, on eBay. The bidding was to start at US$150, but, so far, it has attracted no interest.
HOW COULD THIS BE?
Simpson’s star value has fallen considerably since his arrest on the charges he killed his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman, collectors say.
(still IHT)
That’s cleared that up then, thanks.
So, in the absence of further news, let’s take a look back at what O.J. and Lady O.J. have been up to since the turn of the century.
Simpson and his on-again, off-again girlfriend Christie Prody have been named in at least 18 Miami-Dade County police reports since he arrived in 2000, according to records.
Only a couple of those incidents resulted in charges, and neither Simpson, 60, nor Prody, 32, has been sentenced to jail time.
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Police have been called to break up loud fights between the couple five times in the past seven years, records show.
Prody was ejected from a hotel near Miami International Airport in 2000 for kicking and slapping Simpson.
She shoved him again in 2005, and then slapped one of his friends, according to police reports. Prody also has accused Simpson of entering her home without permission, stealing pages from her address book and erasing her voice mails. Neither of them has ever filed charges against the other.
Sometimes I worry that there will come a day when there is nothing to write on O.J., and so this blog will become kind of empty. Then I read stuff like that and I stop worrying. Good luck to them.
O.J.’s note to self: Don’t appear on TMZ.com
O.J.
